Feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (B) - For the Ride Home

•This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words of his. (Exodus 24:8b)
•The cup of salvation I will take up, and I will call upon the name of the LORD. (Psalm 116:13)
•For this reason he is mediator of a new covenant… (Hebrews 9:15)
•Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all drank from it. (Mark 14:23)

•How is Jesus the mediator between God and humans?
•How do you follow (model) Jesus to unbelievers?
•In consuming Jesus in the Eucharist do you become his mission?

No matter how enlightened one may be by the light of the natural and acquired knowledge, he cannot enter into himself to delight within himself in the Lord (Ps. 36:4) unless Christ be his mediator, who says: I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved; (John 10:9) and he will go in and out and will find paradise. But we do not draw near to this door unless we believe in him, hope in him and love him. Therefore, if we wish to enter again into the enjoyment of Truth as paradise, we must enter through faith in, hope in and love of Jesus Christ, (1Tim. 2:5) the mediator of God and men, who is like the tree of life in the middle of paradise. (St. Bonaventure: The Soul’s Journey into God)¹

¹Bonaventure, edited by Ewert Cousins, Paulist Press,: Mahwah NJ, 1978.

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